According to administration officials, concerns rose when the North Koreans reneged on the Oslo agreement to allow Swedish diplomats to visit all four Americans held prisoner, and then followed through with only one.

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reneging

: to go back on a promise or agreement

Word Root of renege

The Latin word negāre, meaning “to deny” or “to say no,” and its form negātus give us the root neg. Words from the Latin negāre have something to do with saying no. Anything negative, such as a reply to a question, denies something or responds by saying no. To renege is to go back on, or deny, an agreement or promise. Even the last letters of deny, to declare something to be false, come from negāre.